Crowdsourcing video startup Kaltura is partnering with the Wikimedia Foundation to put its video-mashup technology on Wikipedia. The program, which is starting in beta today, will allow people to create collaborative videos on Wikipedia and other wikis. Kaltura’s video-editing technology allows multiple people to collaborate in creating a video.
The addition will eventually make it easier for Wikipedia contributors to add video clips, images, diagrams, animations, and PowerPoint presentations to Wikipedia pages. (They could use some livening up, don’t you think?).
As part of this beta, Kaltura is open-sourcing its video/rich media remixing technology. And it will be available to any wiki that runs on MediaWiki software. As part of the program, users will also gain access to a library of videos and other rich media under the Creative Commons license. Kaltura is based in New York City and launched at TechCrunch 40.
Here’s an overview video I captured from the CEO showing off Kaltura at the NY Tech Meetup:
http://www.centernetworks.com/kaltura-demo-video
This is where you can see how it is implemented
http://www.kaltura.com/devwiki/index.php/Main_Page
This is really amazing
there are some other Wikis already testing Kaltura’s technology. I think they are also participating in the Beta
checkout Wikieducator as well
http://www.wikieducator.org/He.....tive_video
and
http://www.wikieducator.org/Sexual_Education
DO NOT SUPPORT THIS SITE. IT BREAKS THE GFDL LICENSE. THEY ARE USING WIKIPEDIA CONTENT ILLEGALLY.
I love the idea of this. It reminds me of the Olivier Gondry directed Daft Punk video
http://electrorash.com/?p=208
When I went to see Daft Punk live I was thinking it could be a good medium to work in to generate video clips for all those tracks by your favourite bands that will never have a video clip.
The site does support GFDL, and has fixed the missing references to wikipedia articles. All content on Kaltura as well as its wiki is governed by CC-BY-SA
So how will their Naruto video be released as CC? With the copyrighted images and music intact? http://www.kaltura.com/devwiki.....Naruto.jpg
Way cool! I liked what I saw from Kaltura at the TechCrunch 40 and this really shows how you can realize the potential of such a feature. But Danny’s question is interesting though. This whole copyright thing gets more interesting for every day of web 2.0…
Danny,
In my view, this would fall under the fair-use clause.
And this is what I found on the wikimedia foundation site:
http://wikimediafoundation.org.....tive_Video